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journal Articles
2026:
"Global City by the Cinematic Sea:
The Fishing Nut’s Diary Series and the Imaginaries of Tokyo’s Waterfront Urbanism from the mid-1980s to mid-1990s" —
Screen
2024:
“Tokyo Sanitation: Wim Wenders' PERFECT DAYS and the Discourse of Public Cleanliness in Japan” —
Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture
2022:
"Le cinéma japonais indīzu et la fabrique néolibérale de l’auteur et de l’autrice : l’exemple de MOOSIC LAB"—Ebisu. Études japonaises
(French-translated by Amira Zegrour)
"Keyword: Independent | Independent as Affect: A Discussion of the Negotiation Scene in Bing’ai"—
Chinese Independent Cinema Observer issue No.3(Chinese-English translated by Michelle DEETER)
2021:
"Observing the Individual and the World From Collision and Contemplation—Watching Ji Dan's Spiral Staircase of Harbin and When the Bough Breaks"—
Chinese Independent Cinema Observer issue No.1(Chinese)
Festival reports
2025:
"2025 Tokyo FILMeX"
—DEEPFOCUS (Chinese-coauthored w Song Yuancheng)
"2025 Yamagata International Film Festival"
—DEEPFOCUS (Chinese-
coauthored w Song Yuancheng & Bob Chow)
2024:
"2024 Tokyo FILMeX"
—DEEPFOCUS (Chinese)
"2024 Tokyo International Film Festival"
—DEEPFOCUS (Chinese)
2023:
"2023 Yamagata International Film Festival"
—DEEPFOCUS (Chinese)
2022:
"2022 Busan International Film Festival"
—DEEPFOCUS (Chinese-coauthored w 2-3)
2021:
"2021 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival"
—DEEPFOCUS (Chinese-coauthored w 2-3)
"2021 Osaka Asian Film Festival"
—DEEPFOCUS (Chinese-coauthored w 2-3)
2020:
"2020 Tokyo FILMeX"
—DEEPFOCUS (Chinese-coauthored w 2-3)
2019:
"2019 Tokyo FILMeX"
—DEEPFOCUS (Chinese-coauthored w Shen Nian)
"2019 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival"
—DEEPFOCUS (Chinese-coauthored w Song Yuancheng)
Interviews
2025:
with Danzuka Yuiga
—DEEPFOCUS (Chinese）
with Oda Kaori
—DEEPFOCUS (Chinese）
2024:
with Yamanaka Yoko
—DEEPFOCUS (Chinese）
with Pan Lu
—With Her Camera (Chinese-coauthored w Shen Nian, Yang Mei)
with Hong Da-ye
—With Her Camera (Chinese-coauthored w Shen Nian, Yang Mei)
with Okawa Keiko
—With Her Camera (Chinese-coauthored w Shen Nian, Yang Mei)
with Iguchi Nami
—With Her Camera (Chinese-coauthored w Shen Nian, Yang Mei)
2023:
with Wang Bo
—Directive (Chinese）
2022:
with Miyake Sho
—DEEPFOCUS (Chinese-coauthored w Ho Nam, Jenny）
2021:
with Kawase Naomi
—Southern Weekly (Print media, Chinese-coauthored w Ma Ran）
with Ichiyama Shozo
—DEEPFOCUS (Chinese-coauthored w Ma Ran）
2020:
with Fukada Koji
—DEEPFOCUS (Chinese-coauthored w 2-3）
with Oda Kaori
—DEEPFOCUS (Chinese-coauthored w Ma Ran）
with Lu Ruiqi
—DEEPFOCUS (Chinese-coauthored w Shen Nian）
with Abe Harika
—DEEPFOCUS (Chinese-coauthored w Shen Nian）
with Kaneko Yurina
—DEEPFOCUS (Chinese）
2019:
with Zhang Mengqi
—DEEPFOCUS (Chinese-coauthored w Song Yuancheng, Shen Nian）
Methy
FILM Reviews
2025:
"On PTA's One Battle After Another"
2023:
"On Okawa Keiko's Oasis"
"The Useless Choices for Ethical Seeing: On Miyazaki Hayao’s The Boy and the Heron"—DEEPFOCUS (Chinese)
2022:
"Adachi Masao's Revolution+1"
—DEEPFOCUS (Chinese)
"Wakaliwood Cinema"—ARTFORUM (Chinese)
"On Miyake Sho's Small, Slow But Steady"
2021:
"On Lana Wachowski's The Matrix Resurrections"
"The Omniscient Spy and the Blind Wife: The Gender Politics in Kurosawa Kiyoshi's Wife of a Spy"—DEEPFOCUS (Chinese)
"The Gender Politics in Kurosawa Kiyoshi's Wife of a Spy"—World Screen (Chinese:Hard-Copy)
2019:
"Returning to the animalhood----on Mariko Tetsuya's From Miyamoto to You"—DEEPFOCUS (Chinese)
"Yamato Yuki's Gimmick is the Antidote of Japanese shojo manga cinema----on Yamato Yuki's Hot Gimmick: Girl meets Boy"
—DEEPFOCUS (Chinese)
"A Post-modern Rebellion----on Ninomiya Ken's Chiwawa"—DEEPFOCUS (Chinese)
Translations
2021:
"The Tokyo International Film Festival and Chinese Film Industry"—authored by Ishizaka kenji in Chinese Independent Cinema Observer issue No.1(Chinese)
"The Osaka Asian Film Festival Has Witnessed Chinese Cinema's Change and Diversification"—authored by Teruoka Sozo in Chinese Independent Cinema Observer issue No.1(Chinese)
"Chinese Independent Cinema and The Tokyo FILMeX International Film Festival"—authored by Ichiyama Shozo in Chinese Independent Cinema Observer issue No.1(Chinese)
2020:
"Sprinting and the End: Talking with Hara Kazuo on Minamata Mandala and else"—authored by Wang Muyan in The Paper: Sixiangshichang (Chinese)
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